A high school football coach in the Cleveland area resigned on Monday after he and his team repeatedly used the word “Nazi” as a play-call reference during a game on Friday night, school officials said. The coach, Tim McFarland, who led Brooklyn High School’s football team, and his players used the term in the first half of a game against Beachwood High School, Robert Hardis, the superintendent of the Beachwood schools, said in a statement. Brooklyn High School, from the southwest Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, was playing as the visiting team in Beachwood, Ohio, a predominantly Jewish suburb southeast of Cleveland. After Beachwood High School officials, including the athletic director and the head coach, learned what was happening on the field late in the first half of the game, they notified game officials, Mr. Hardis said. Mr. McFarland acknowledged that his team had been using the word “Nazi” as a play call, apologized and said his team would use another word for its play call in the second half of the game, Mr. Hardis said.

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Persons: Tim McFarland, Robert Hardis, Hardis, McFarland Organizations: Nazi, Brooklyn High School’s, Beachwood High School, Brooklyn High School Locations: Cleveland, Brooklyn, Beachwood , Ohio